James Webb (South African artist)

James Webb (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la June biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 1975 tiŋ yu;o booni Kimberley, Northern Cape) nyɛla South African nuchee ni baŋda.

James Webb (South African artist)
Kimberley (en) , Silimin gɔli June 20, 1975 (run 49)
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	South Africa
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	University of Cape Town (en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	sculptor (en) , curator (en) ni designer (en)
theotherjameswebb.com

Shikuru baŋsim

Webb nyɛla ŋun daa deegi BA in Drama mini Comparative Religion din be University of Cape Town yuuni 1996.

Catalogues

• As yet untitled, edited by Khanya Mashabela, Norval Foundation, 2021 ISBN 978-1-7764005-1-5

Artworks

• 2000 - ongoing: "Prayer"
• 2004 - ongoing: "There's no place called home"
• 2008: "Scream"
• 2010 - ongoing: "There is a light that never goes out"
• 2011: "Telephone Voice"
• 2016 - ongoing: "A series of personal questions"
• 2020: "There is a voice other than the one you are hearing"
• 2020: "This is where I leave you"
• 2021 "Nothing here does not hear you"

Solo exhibitions

2024

• "The Moon Will Not Stay Hidden Forever," Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2021

• "Nothing here does not hear you," National Arts Festival, Makhanda, South Africa
• "As yet untitled," Norval Sculpture Garden, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2020

• "What Fresh Hell Is This," blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2019

• "Choose The Universe," Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France
• "Three Dreams Of The Sinking World," Pool Space, Johannesburg, South Africa

2018

• "James Webb: Prayer," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
• "The dreamer in me meets the dreamer in you," Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden
• "It’s Not What It Looks Like," SPACES, Cleveland, United States of America

2016

• "We Listen For The Future," Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
• "Hope Is A Good Swimmer," Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France
• "Ecstatic Interference," blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2015

• "Xenagogue," curated by Anthea Buys, HKS, Bergen, Norway

2014

• "The Two Insomnias," blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2013

• "Audiopolis," curated by Francisco López (musician), CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain

2012

• "MMXII," Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 

2010

• "Terms Of Surrender," ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Untitled States," curated by Anna Douglas, mac, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• "Prayer," Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
• "One day, all of this will be yours," blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Aleph," Goethe On Main, Johannesburg, South Africa

2008

• "Prayer," Huddersfield Art Gallery, United Kingdom

2006

• Untitled, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Group exhibitions

2024

• "Between Rivers," Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
• "Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions," Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas, United States of America

2023

• "Goodbye to Love," Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• "You to me, Me to you," A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
• "The Sound – Sonic Art in Public Spaces," 2nd Monheim Triennale, Monheim am Rhein
• 14th MONA FOMA, curated by Brian Ritchie, Tasmania, Australia
• "À bruit secret," Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

2022

• "Manifesto of Fragility," 16th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
• "The Future Is Behind Us," A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2021

• "The Normal," Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2020

• "AUDIOSPHERE: Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-Internet," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2019

• "Open Borders," Biennial of Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
• Blickachsen 12, Bad Homburg, Germany
• Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2018

• "African Metropolis," curated by Simon Njami and Elena Motisi, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
• "The Red Hour," 13th Dakar Biennale, curated by Simon Njami, Senegal
• "Common Ground," Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom

2017

• "The Lotus in spite of the Swamp," curated by Trevor Schoonmaker for the 4th Prospect triennial of New Orleans
• "Ways of Seeing," curated by Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
• "Ways of Seeing," curated by Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
• "Picasso et la maternité," curated by Florence Saragoza, Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Vela, France
• "BECOMING AN APRICOT, An Apple, A Crow, A Tree, A Cockroach, A Glacier, A Plant, A Mushroom, A Shell, A bird, Algae," curated by Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Solvita Krese, Inga Lāce for Survival Kit 9, Riga, Latvia
• "Image Drain," curated by Anthea Buys for the 4th Tallinn Photo Month biennale, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
• "Tous, des sang mêles," curated by Frank Lamy and Julie Crenn, Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris
• "Every Time An Ear Di Soun," curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and co-curated by Marcus Gammel, documenta 14 radio
• "Afriques Capitales," curated by Simon Njami, La Villette, Paris
• "Tamawuj," 13th Sharjah Biennial, curated by Christine Tohmé, UAE

2016

• "History Unfolds," curated by Helene Larsson Pousette, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
• "Malmös Leende," curated by Edi Muka, Malmö, Sweden
• Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes, France
• "A Place In Time," curated by Dr. Helen Pheby, Nirox Foundation, South Africa

2015

• "Between the idea and the experience," 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
• "Barriers," curated by Elisabeth Millqvist, Wanås Castle, Hässleholm, Sweden
• "Nous نحن," Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France, with Ninar Esber

2014

• "Frestas," Trienal of Sorocaba, curated by Josué Mattos, Sorocaba, Brazil
• "New Biennale of Art and Architecture Fittja," curated by Joanna Sandell, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
• "Bleu Brut - Experience Pommery 12," Vranken-Pommery, Reims, France
• "Helicotrema," curated by Blauer Hase, Viafraini, Milano, Italy

2013

• "Imaginary Fact," curated by Brent Meersman, South African Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
• "Between The Lines," curated by Eva Scharrer, Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin, Germany
• "No Limit 2," Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France
• "Let me lose myself," Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden

2012

• "Experience Pommery 10," curated by Bernard Blistène and Jean Marie Gallais, Vranken-Pommery, Reims, France
• abc Art Berlin Contemporary, Station Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Fierce Festival, curated by Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison, various venues, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• "In Other Words: the black market of translation," curated by Elena Agudio, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

2011

• Fierce Festival, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• "Experience Pommery 9," curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino, Vranken-Pommery, Reims, France
• Répondeur, curated by Rahma Khazam, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2010

• "Sentences On The Banks and other activities," Darat Al-Funun, Amman, Jordan
• "Reflex / Reflexión," Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
• Article Biennale, various venues, Stavanger, Norway
• My World Images, various venues, Copenhagen, Denmark
• "Istanbul, Athens, Marrakech, Palermo, Catania," RISO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo
• "In Other Words," Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Twenty," Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Contemporary Artists From South Africa," Stiftelsen 314, Bergen, Norway
• "Ampersand," Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• "No Soul For Sale," L'appartement 22 / Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
• "1910 – 2010," Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Printemps des Poétes," Salon de lecture, Musée du quai Branly, Paris

2009

• "Happy House," Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 3rd Arts In Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech Museum, Morocco
• "L’effacement des traces," Musée d'histoire contemporaine, Paris, France
• Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
• CAPE 09, Cape Town’s second biennale of contemporary African Culture, various venues, Cape Town, South Africa
• "This Is Now 2," L’appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco

2008

• "Jozi & The (M)Other City," Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Home Bound," Stiftung Kunst:Raum Sylt Quelle, Sylt, Germany
• "za. Giovane arte dal Sud Africa," Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
• "This Is Now 1," Joburg Art Fair, South Africa
• "Light Show," Bank Gallery, Durban, South Africa

2007

• "The History of a Decade that has not yet been Named," 9th Lyon Biennale, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stephanie Moisdon, Lyon, France
• "Beau Diable," Gallery In The Round, Makanda, South Africa
• "Sakra!," St. Andrä, Graz, Austria
• 3C, Critic’s Choice Exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
• "(In)visible Sounds," Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (With Brandon LaBelle)
• "Afterlife," Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town

2002

• "Phonosynthesizer," US Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

External links

• Artist website
• Sylt interview Archived 4 Silimin gɔli March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Artist's Instagram Page
• Artist's page at Galerie Imane Farès
• Artist's page at blank projects
• Artist's page in the KADIST collection